Talking in just pictures through light, color, depth of field (selective focus), and texture is soothing. I’m finding myself flipping through more superficial fashion magazines and blogs and spending more time getting dressed. There’s a simple joy in putting on clothes, jewelry, paints, and armor to present myself as a special, unique snowflake. Clothes also [...]
Tagged photographsThis is Old Queens, but I’ll be walking at College Hall because I’m the last class of Douglass College. Unfortunately, the camera I was using was reclaimed before I could get a picture of College Hall, so I’ll rep Rutgers. Classes ended last week; exams ended this week; I walk tomorrow (and Monday) to get [...]
Tagged new brunswick, new jersey, photographs, reflection, universityI was driving today, not an unusual occurrence this summer as I have a dedicated car this summer (my father’s SUV), but, it finally struck me that: I don’t hate driving anymore. Now, this lack of hate is not a like. The scale goes a little more like: Soul-deep LOATHING Grimace-inducing HATRED Vague discomfort and [...]
Tagged culture, driving, pennsylvania, tourSo I’ve been home for a couple days now and every day I put “blog” and “flickr” on my to do list because I still haven’t shared Munich or Stuttgart with you (and there are definitely things to share) and there are pictures that I’m sure my mother would love to see—but I’ve come up [...]
Tagged mea culpaToday I went to Erin’s gender studies class. It’s English language and their focus is utopias/dystopias. Sitting there and listening to the German students speak so eloquently on defamiliarization and whether a woman’s sole advantage over man is her ability to bear young made me so jealous. Is this what I could’ve done if I [...]
Tagged Germany, language, lecture, tubingen, university